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Jeez, the Rove handlers must have been multi-orgasmic last night as they watched Sarah Palin, their Stepford candidate, recite their lines just like they drilled and drilled and drilled.

Jeez, the Rove handlers must have been multi-orgasmic last night as they watched Sarah Palin, their Stepford candidate, recite their lines just like they drilled and drilled and drilled.

To be expected:

Barr said reports of a “cursory vetting process” for Palin “raise questions about the way McCain reached his decision.”

Maureen Dowd skewers the Sarah Palin apologists and stretches the logic of their wishful thinking to hilarious proportions:

And we’re apparently doing it to enhance one of the candidates fighting for our presidency. Let’s see. Who would benefit if things appear stressful and dangerous, the old warrior or the new kid? Why, I think that would be the old guy, don’t you? Can you say “Cold War” boys and girls? I knew you could.

It is perhaps true that there is little America or any of its European allies could do to oust Russia from  South Ossetia.  And thus many have remarked that since against a nuclear-armed Russia, NATO can do nada, why extend the false promise of alliance to Georgia?  Let’s save that debate for another time. 

On Monday I wrote what Russia's Georgia gambit has done. It was a short post and so here is the whole thing except the first two sentences.

Russia can move its forces on the ground faster than diplomats can move themselves to conferences.

• Georgia/Russia Fallout
  • Bill Kristol - New York Times

But unlike the Aesop's fable, the tortoise won't win this one. It will be permanently outrun by the hare.

Russia can move its forces on the ground faster than diplomats can move themselves to conferences. So Russia blitzes Georgia while the rest of the world tries to figure out what is happening.